Spider has been the name of a number of vessels of the British Royal Navy;
- HMS Spider (1782), formerly the privateer Victoire built at Dunkirk earlier that year, that the Royal Navy captured in 1782, took into service, and sold at Malta in 1806.
- HMS Spider (1806), formerly Vigilante, a Spanish brig-rigged sloop captured on 4 April 1806 by HMS Renommee, and that served in the Royal Navy for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars.[1] She was broken up in 1815 at Antigua.
- HMS Spider (1835), a six-gun schooner built at Chatham in 1835 to a design by Sir Robert Seppings, which served in South America before becoming an engine fitters' vessel at Plymouth in 1855. Dimensions: Length Overall: 80' 2" x Breadth: 23' 3" x Depth: 9' 10"[2]
- HMS Spider (1856), a wooden gunboat built on the Tyne by T W Smith in 1856, which later served in South America and South Africa. Dimensions: Length Overall: 106' x Breadth: 22' x Depth: 8' [3]
- HMS Spider (1887), a steel, twin-screw torpedo gunboat built at Devonport in 1887.[4] Of 525 tons displacement, she was armed with one 4" gun and six 3-pounder Quick-firing guns. She had two fixed torpedo tubes and two launching cradles.
- HMS Spider, a coastal destroyer renamed TB 5 in 1906.[5]
- Spider, a stern-wheeled gunboat launched by Thornycroft in 1909 that in 1912 served the South Nigerian government.
- Spider, formerly the wooden fishing boat Francisco Antonio Quarto,[6] purchased at Gibraltar in 1941 and used as a degaussing vessel.[7]
See also
editAt least two hired armed vessels also bore the name Spider:
- Hired armed lugger Spider
- Hired armed cutter Spider
Citations
edit- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376183" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376185" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376186" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376187" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376179" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ Carlier (1965), p. 66.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376181" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
References
edit- Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3
- Carlier, Libera Bruno (1965). Opération Flandre: Action station-go! (in French). Éditions Die Poorte.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
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